Wells County, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,240 ft 685 m2,040 ft 620 m1,930 ft 590 m1,730 ft 525 m1,520 ft 465 m1,420 ft 430 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Wells County averages about 1,690 ft (515 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,420 ft on the northeast side to 2,240 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
1,690 ft 515 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,240 ft 685 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
1,420 ft 430 m
on the northeast side
Wells County spans about 820 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 2,240 ft685 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 1,420 ft430 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
36 mi south to north through Harvey.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 3,803 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,270.5 sq mi + 19.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.0 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Central Lowland 87%, Great Plains 13%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 63%, Canada 21%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Sheridan County1,860 ft
- Kidder County1,860 ft
- Wells County1,690 ft
- Stutsman County1,670 ft
- Pierce County1,570 ft
- Benson County1,560 ft
- Foster County1,540 ft
- Eddy County1,520 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Dakota29th highest of 53
- Counties in the United States745th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Hawks Nest2,120 ft
- Butte de Morale1,750 ft
- Black Hammer Hill1,700 ft
All 44 towns in Wells County by typical elevation
- Lynn Township1,990 ft
- Silver Lake Township1,920 ft
- Bull Moose Township1,910 ft
- Hurdsfield1,910 ft
- Progress Township1,910 ft
- Crystal Lake Township1,890 ft
- Chaseley Township1,850 ft
- Berlin Township, Wells County1,850 ft
- Haaland Township1,810 ft
- Johnson Township1,810 ft
- Bowdon1,810 ft
- Speedwell Township1,750 ft
- Hawksnest Township1,730 ft
- West Ontario Township1,690 ft
- Delger Township1,680 ft
- Sykeston Township1,670 ft
- Pony Gulch Township1,640 ft
- Rusland Township1,640 ft
- Sykeston1,640 ft
- South Cottonwood Township1,630 ft
- Western Township1,620 ft
- St. Anna Township1,610 ft
- Forward Township1,610 ft
- Fessenden1,610 ft
- Manfred Township1,610 ft
- Oshkosh Township1,600 ft
- Hillsdale Township1,600 ft
- Cathay Township1,600 ft
- Bilodeau Township1,600 ft
- Wells Township1,600 ft
- West Norway Township1,600 ft
- Fram Township1,600 ft
- Harvey1,600 ft
- Germantown Township1,590 ft
- Heimdal Township1,590 ft
- Woodward Township1,590 ft
- Heimdal1,590 ft
- Hamburg Township1,580 ft
- Valhalla Township1,580 ft
- Cathay1,580 ft
- Norway Lake Township1,580 ft
- Fairville Township1,570 ft
- Bremen Township1,570 ft
- Hamberg1,550 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 1,420 ft at 47.8335° N, 99.3146° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.